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Jul. 30th, 2012 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmic_llin Oooh, also, I totally forgot, Cara and I went to Folk by the Oak the other weekend - her birthday present to me! It was such good fun, it's only a tiny one-day festival but there was lots going on, plus it was a lovely, sunny day. Music-wise, Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo really grabbed me, as did Cara Dillon, and the Ukuleke Orchestra were lots of fun too. I have to say, I wasn't that impressed by Show of Hands - the music was good but they opened with three unbelievably cynical and miserable songs and I lost patience with it a bit.
On the whole the music was great, but possibly the nicest thing about the day was that we didn't have to do anything apart from turn up and lie around in a field listening to music, reading, snoozing and occasionally getting up for chips and ice cream. We spend so many weekends rushing around doing All The Things, it was really good to have some real down time. (Plus the last couple of years we've been to Cambridge Folk Fest, and although it's always good we spend more time dashing between stages and trying to figure out where we can sit, whereas FbtO was much easier in that respect because it's that much smaller.)
On the whole the music was great, but possibly the nicest thing about the day was that we didn't have to do anything apart from turn up and lie around in a field listening to music, reading, snoozing and occasionally getting up for chips and ice cream. We spend so many weekends rushing around doing All The Things, it was really good to have some real down time. (Plus the last couple of years we've been to Cambridge Folk Fest, and although it's always good we spend more time dashing between stages and trying to figure out where we can sit, whereas FbtO was much easier in that respect because it's that much smaller.)
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Date: 2012-07-31 08:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-02 08:52 pm (UTC)(On the other hand, I discovered on our recent long weekend in Croatia that chips dipped in chocolate sauce really works...)
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Date: 2012-08-02 11:49 pm (UTC)(On the other other hand, last night we had our first broccoli of the season, harvested by moonlight - no, really - and immediately steamed and then served with my homemade cheese sauce. Duuuuude. You have my permission to feel unreasonably envious, muhahahaha...)
p.s. Love the our recent long weekend in Croatia, as when I was your calendar age travel to then-Yugoslavia was Simply Not Done, even though it waasn't a formal part of the CCCP. So very kewl, that :-)
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Date: 2012-08-03 08:35 am (UTC)Hee, that's cool! I was really interested actually in how much it felt like a cross between Russia and Italy...
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Date: 2012-08-03 09:03 am (UTC)felt like a cross between Russia and Italy
Awesome! I don't s'pose you have photos?
Speaking of Italy, I wish I could teleport to do a leisurely gastronomic tour of all its regions. So many cheeses, so many wines...
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Date: 2012-08-03 12:48 pm (UTC)https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100457790607748.2648445.199702977&type=3&l=76b3db36c6
I have to say, that's something I'd love to do. I've only really been to Amalfi and Pompeii. Cara plans to show me around properly sometime. (My dad recently went on a weekend trip to Rome, Cara asked him how it was, he said it was 'all right but he wouldn't go again' and she nearly exploded...)
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Date: 2012-08-03 06:32 pm (UTC)